The sun is not yellow, it’s chicken — says Bob Dylan in his lyrics.

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Upon entering Victoria Pidust’s exhibition, I encounter two large prints of chickens. The sight momentarily unsettles my sense of reality. For a few strange seconds, the chickens feel both generated and hyperreal — as if they exist somewhere between worlds.

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Pidust looks at the world through her iPhone lens. In her series iphone zooms, she pushes the zoom function of this mundane device to its limits, creating an abstraction within our otherwise clearly defined vision of the world. Suddenly, colors become sensational, the grain becomes impressionistic, and ordinary objects are revealed through a microscope of imagination.